http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/lincoln-chafee-interview_n_91444.html
"When the president first started talking about Iraq, it was just met with incredulity. There was no connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The intelligence was questionable. But there was all this fear from 9/11.
Colin Powell was the coup de grace with his testimony at the United Nations. And you heard it here in Rhode Island. People were saying, 'Well Colin Powell presented all this evidence about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam being a threat.' He sold the war for them. "
What does Powell think of Habbush? Did he know anything about that?
"What was going on in the Senate at the time? Was there just too much pressure by the administration for a majority anti-war coalition?
We just got through Vietnam. And we were about to do it all again. The Democrats were abysmal. They controlled the Senate in 2002. And none of the right questions were being asked. There was a minority led by Sen. [Robert] Byrd. He was terrific. But the floor was generally silent. "
question:
Which democrats ....
which democrats were in then?
were they the ones who did the report of the SSCI?
so were they reporting on their own mess ups?
were they analyzing their own f up?